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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speech in Yurakucho
July 4, 2013, Tokyo, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a street rally from atop the vehicle on his stumping tour for a local candidate at Tokyo's Ikebukuro area on Thursday, July 4, 2013, as campaigning for the July 21 upper house election officially kicks off.

Contested are half the 242seats in less powerful upper house of parliament that could make or break the Abe administration and Abenomics, his economic-revival plan. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO)